Can Brion actually do that? I always thought that developers were a completely seperate level, and that the developer groups were granted access to the code of MediaWiki and in some cases, access to the servers. If I'm correct, it would be pretty difficult I think to add himself on the live copy. I've never heard that developers have bureaucrat/admin access. Does anyone actually know what rights developers have? Archer7 - talk 12:21, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

The reason is because they will most likely never use the tools again. Therefore, it's misleading in the statistics to say that we have that number of administrators. It's also a security issue, as if we have greater number of people with extra powers, there's potentially more people for hackers to target. We'd reinstate them if they ever came back. Archer7 - talk 08:22, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I have decided to remove the vote of a banned user, Choosnink. This is due to the fact that "she" is the sockpuppet of a troll.-- Tdxiang 09:28, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Support - Simon hasn't been around for a really long time, and Brion can just give it to himself if he needs to. Sean William 21:44, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Support I have not seen either of them around since I have joined wikipedia simple english. They are not really much of a help if they are not here.--†Sir James Paul† 03:22, 2 July 2007 (UTC)